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WordPress: Accessibility

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Build an accessible website with WordPress. Learn how to use accessibility principles and WordPress plugins and themes to make your website accessible to all.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Accessibility in WordPress
  • What you should know
1. What Is Web Accessibility?
  • Web accessibility concepts
  • Accessibility and your business
  • Assistive technology overview
2. Accessibility and WordPress
  • Creating accessible content
  • Understanding accessibility in WordPress
  • Accessible core: What WordPress provides
  • Accessible interfaces: What WordPress themes control
  • Accessible interfaces: What WordPress plugins control
3. Accessibility in Your Theme
  • Examining design and color contrast
  • Constructing accessible navigation
  • Perceivable images and icons
  • Page architecture and HTML semantics
  • Page builder plugins
  • Testing page builders
4. Plugin Accessibility
  • WordPress plugins can do anything
  • ARIA, Ajax, and your website
  • Interacting with forms and their responses
  • How WordPress plugins impact accessibility
  • Example: WordPress plugins for accessibility
5. Authoring Accessible Content
  • What is accessible content?
  • Using audio and video
  • Organizing your content on the page
  • Getting help from the block editor
  • Getting help from the Classic Editor
6. Testing in WordPress
  • Automated and manual accessibility testing
  • Testing accessibility with WAVE by WebAIM
  • Testing accessibility with Tenon.io
  • Testing accessibility using axe by Deque
  • Using bookmarklets for quick assessments
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Joe Dolson

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